Breaking-Finance.Com - Analysts at UBS believe that biometric payment cards could capture a 15% share of the card market within the next five years. The Swiss bank says increasing penetration of fingerprint sensor cards will drive $5 billion in revenue by 2016.It points to declining production costs, the rise of the touch-free economy and a number of successful commercial piots over the past year in its rationale.

. Multiple other banks, from SocGen to NatWest, are also trialling the technology.“In the past few years more than 23 pilots were reported with three commercial launches ongoing," says UBS. "In conclusion, despite the rise of mobile payment threat to the total cards volume, we believe biometric cards can fuel some growth within the payment cards market."

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